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Permalink Like (7) Dislike (6) This question goes out to all the people who actually believe that gay sex is immoral. I am formally challenging that belief. If any of you honestly believe that gay sex is immoral, give your reasons here. I reserve the right to challenge the validity of those reasons.
Attendance by Bap33 is mandatory. By the way, that avatar is pretty gay for someone who's homophobic.
Just saying...
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New Renter says
All true. But there is a reason for the post.
Demonizing homosexuality has caused enormous harm to many people. Mathew Shepard was brutally murdered because of it. His family suffered greatly. Many people have been arrested in 20th century U.S. and Britain for being homosexual. Alan Turing, the greatest mind that ever lived, was driven to suicide after he was arrested for being gay. Multitudes of same-sex couples are denied equality under law due to this discrimination.
So, I am quite justified in demanding an explanation for why gay sex is immoral, because if it isn't, then calling it immoral certainly is.
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New Renter says
You took my comment out of context. The thread is referring to gay sex. My comment was meant to imply that those against it are often times hypocrites. I do agree however that some on the left can be just as crazy.
Here is an example that just passed my facebook moments ago. I don't go looking for these, they simply happen every SINGLE DAY.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/2790496-95/biron-charges-lawyer-manchester
Anti-Gay Christian Lawyer Arrested For Possession Of Child Pornography
A member of the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, which has filed numerous lawsuits in opposition to LGBT rights nationwide, has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to child pornography.
A Manchester lawyer took a teenage girl to Canada, had her engage in sexual activity and convinced her to let it be filmed, according to federal indictments. FBI agents swiftly arrested Lisa Biron yesterday morning as she awaited a hearing on child pornography charges at Manchester’s district court. About 9 a.m. FBI agents entered the courtroom, told Biron to leave her belongings and took her into an adjoining conference room where she remained for several minutes before coming out in handcuffs. Outside, Biron ducked her head below the backseat window of a white vehicle as it was driven away from the courthouse. A few hours later in U.S. District Court in Concord, Biron, who is associated with a national coalition of Christian lawyers, was formally told of the federal charges against her: transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and five counts of sexual exploitation of children. Judge Landya McCafferty decided to detain Biron yesterday, largely, she said, because she is believed to have broken most of the bail conditions imposed on the district-level pornography charges.
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Dan8267 says
That would be an interesting topic to debate. Was Alan Turing the greatest mind to ever live?
I'm all up his ass, too, but the greatest mind to ever live? Maybe, but how could you be sure?
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Dan8267 says
Plenty of people in the mid 1930s found the speeches given by Hitler entertaining. He wasn't humorous at least that I can tell but he did have a style that kept his audiences enthralled. He could never have come to power otherwise.
Personally I can't see how anyone can listen to Limbaugh. I've tried but I can't go more than a few minutes before I have to turn off the radio.
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swebb says
I suppose Friedrich Gauss could give Turing a run for his money, but I'm still more of a Turing fan.
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Dan8267 says
No, but it does come across as you're setting yourself up to be the guru on the mountain top. I've read many of your comments/observations that I completely disagree with. Not sure that I'll learn, but sometimes your rants are mildly entertaining. Do you understand how it can come across?
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Not sure I'm 'relying' on God to set things straight, I believe it will happen regardless of if you're 'relaying' on it or not. I also disagree that what happens in the afterlife to those who commit horrible acts (rape, murder, etc) dismisses the reason/need to correct/punish the offender in this life, render to caeser and all that.
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mmmarvel says
How I come across depends entirely on the maturity of the other person. Juveniles see knowledge sharing as arrogant. Adults see these discussions as ways of letting good ideas bubble through society. Sure, most of the ideas in such conversations may be "bad", but if even a small percentage are worth spreading and they spread like wildfire, then society is better off.
Perhaps some day you will understand this. It's not about the person doing the writing. It's about the ideas being written down and discussed.
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I wouldn't limit it the problem to anal sex. Doggy style sex is a lack of respect for your human conditions and going back being animals. Missionary style should be the only moral way of having intercourse.
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ja says
Still too similar to animals, by that logic the only moral way is test tubes in an immaculate lab. Relying upon the Bible and the doctrine of the Church, everyone must emulate the example of Mary as closely as possible: immaculate conception is the only moral way. Praise be to the inventor of the test tube, for bringing us all closer to The Light and The Truth and The Way. And the Brave New World.
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curious2 says
I was going to suggest through a hole in a sheet, but your reasoning is undeniable.
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leo707 says
Still too close to the animals. we need to get away from biology altogether:
Robot bodies with cybernetic brains for all, its the only moral choice!
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Dan,
after seeing your position (no pun), and those of others, it seems to me you need to start a new thread asking, "why the hell is gay sex so rare?"
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Bap33 says
Easy question. It was very common less than a century ago, but then got bundled together with an identity. Previously, people who keep thinking about it (not to mention any names Bap) would simply have done it, but now they are afraid of being called gay, so instead of actually doing it they just keep thinking about it.
BTW, the hunky Captain America avatar reminds me of a certain WWE wrestler:
Please take care. Pills marketed as "anti-depressants" are no substitute for healthy living. Neither is religion - which wthrfrk/freak80 retreats into because he calls legal recognition for gay marriage equivalent to slitting his own throat. Although less common than previously, gay sex is pretty easy to find if you look around, and much healthier than pills and religious paranoia.
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Bap33 says
What is rare to you?
10% of men are "predominately" homosexual. 37% of men have had at least one same-sex orgasm.
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curious2 says
Indeed. One should also only get married if they can't stay Celibate, according to Paul. This one gets glossed over big time.
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Bap33 says
6% is rare? Hell, if Romney got the gay vote, he'd be president by now. Hardly an insignificant minority.
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leo707 says
Maybe in San Francisco, but I think the percentages are a bit lower in most of the country. The statistic I read was that 6% of the adult U.S. population was gay or bisexual. Seems a bit more reasonable than 37% of men. Now, given what I've seen on Facebook, it could be argued that at least 80% of women are bisexual or at least pretending...
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Why the hell of an atheist would care about what is moral or immoral.
What is immoral for you? Maximum it's whatever the society, not even the majority but those powerful enough to enforce their agenda, declare immoral.
Why would you care about what they think or say they think?
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Dan8267 says
True:
Gay Vote Seen As Crucial In Obama's Victory
Exit polls found 5% of voters identified themselves as gay, including more than 6% of voters under 30, so that isn't exactly rare. For comparison, Asian Americans are fewer than 5%, Jewish Americans fewer than 3%.
But, the Kinsey surveys in the 1950s found more than 1/3 of men had done what would now be called "gay sex" at least once. They didn't call it that, and didn't usually talk about it. The paradox of recent decades has been, the love that dared not speak its name has become the thing that everybody talks about but fewer people are actually doing.
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curious2 says
Yeah, about 5% is exclusively gay, or would identify as gay. Kinsey estimated that about 46% of men "engaged in both heterosexual and homosexual activities, or 'reacted to' persons of both sexes, in the course of their adult lives."
I believe that the 37% number is just the ones who actually reached orgasm with another man. The other 9% --before collapsing in a pile of shame--just furiously masturbate as they inform the internet how disgusting and deviant homosexuals are, but never "consummate" their desires.
One of the shocking things about the Kinsey report was how common it was for a man to have participated in man-on-man action at some point in his life.
For more reading:
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/ak-data.html#homosexuality
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michaelsch says
Atheists obviously care more about morality than Christians. When we do good or avoid doing evil, it's not because we think some cosmic traffic cop is watching us waiting to punish or reward us.
If the only reason you behave in a moral manner is to avoid being punished or in order to be rewarded, you're not really being moral but just careful. A truly moral person does good and not evil simply because it is the right thing to do.
However, your statement does reveal yet another problem with religion. Religion prevents the honest discussion, understanding, and advancement of morality my hijacking the subject and turning it into blindly obeying the priest class.
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michaelsch says
Because Mathew Shepard died.
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leo707 says
What a man does in college while pledging a fraternity is no indication of his sexual orientation, especially if I, er, he was drunk at the time.
In the words of Eric Massa,
And don't get me started on snorkeling. That's just what we straight guys do for fun when we're with the guys.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/14/snl-takes-on-eric-massa-v_n_498267.html
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Also great... The gay vs. straight version of ads. The disclaimer "No Homo" in rap.
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Another true classic ;)
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Dan8267 says
Just a lot of totally empty words. Good and evil are just social concepts embedded in your mind by your social circumstances. Why would a high IQ set of electromagnetic waves care about this BS? May be stop kicking that beloved "Christian" straw man of yours and start being an atheist.
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Dan8267 says
lets recap:
A long while ago you were very upset by me and others that called atheism a religion......
And now, here we are debating the "reason" for an (activity/person/fill-in-blank) to be concidered moral, or immoral, by human kind .... and we are doing it in the "religion" area of the site.....
And now you make a case that suggests that your group of fanatics has a better guide to good life than the other group of fanatics ..... (?)
And when pressed about it you suggest that your side is right because each and every position is based on the thought power of human kind, and nothing at all is based on feeling, faith, or belief.
So you put all of your faith in the thought power of self. You. If your thought power is wrong, and then your way of doing things is forced upon human kind, then all human kind suffers from your flawed reasoning. Right. You are not suggesting that each member of humankind has your ability to reason, but you are suggesting that each member of human use only reason to find morality. Right. Or, you are suggesting that the other members of human kind have faith in what you have reasoned, or what they have reasoned, but each member has to have faith in self, reason, the information gathered, and thier (or your) ability to reason. That, sir, is a religion. Atheism is a religion of self, and lacks the moral anchor of God's word because of the focus on self. That is why you see cutting in line as only being wrong because it harms the lone individual. Order, process, proper conduct, are all part of why waiting in line is a good thing and, for the record, waiting in line is ONLY needed for the good of the group. A singular person has no line. THere must be plural people to need the line. Waiting your turn is better for a moral society, just like shunning male/male coupling is. Only those that lack basic understanding, or moral anchor, refuse to see why some things are just a bad idea. Thank you, good night Atlanta, and God bess.
p.s. ... The Romans did not start out as a bunch of boy bangers in public baths ... they only got that way when life got easy and their focus was on "self". America is Rome 2.0
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I agree 100%. Doing right to avoid hell is a weak reason, but valid. Using your own mind and will to "reason" what is best to do, based on nothing more than your self-centered views, where the possiblity is there for you to be 180* out of phase with every other member of humanity, is better how? The only "reason" that there is even the concept of "right and wrong" is from ancient text. Each new generation that does as you do, thinking that they possess the power to understand all possible reasons for each action and outcome, do as you have done and name for themselves a new god ... your god is self, and your religion is Atheism. I'm not saying that as a bad thing, or in an adversarial manner, just as a fact.
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leo707 says
I have to disagree there Leo. You don't really know that for sure either, you are just guessing.
When I see children imitate what they see, I'm not simply going to rely on any politically convenient biased short term research that says it doesn't matter.
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FortWayne says
well, an intelligent person would look for some psychology papers that study prevalance of gay children among children raised by gays or straight parents...
I know that is a bit much to ask, most pat.net posters couldn't do 2 seconds of research with a tailwind and a head start...
hint: you'll find that children raised by gay parents are no more likely to be gay than children raised by straight parents. Bap33 says
total bs, my dogs know right from wrong, in how they treat each other,and I've yet to see a dog read a religious book.
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If everyone knew right from wrong we wouldn't need laws, prisons, cops and courts. Morality is what we as society agree on. Slavery was completely moral at some point.
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Bap33 says
You sure about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty
Looks to me that boy banging was commonplace throughout the ancient world whether or not the focus of the society was on "self"
As for America being Rome 2.0 - hows that modern easy going attitude towards boy banging working out for you?
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robertoaribas says
I ain't taking chances. All these biased little researches are bogus. That's why Monsanto for so many years got away with dumping pollution, because they paid for research. Same here, it's all biased, and I got to look out for myself.
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New Renter says
It is always amusing to me when someone points to homosexuality and pederasty as the "cause" of the fall of the Roman Empire.
While homosexual behavior was pretty much a constant in the ancient world, belief in Christ did not start to become prevalent until the "end" of the Roman Empire...
...Hmmmmmm...
...hmmmm...
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New Renter says
Yeah, wasn't going to post, but I don't see any evidence this 'boy banging' was just at the tail end, pardon the pun.
"Same-sex attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome often differ markedly from those of the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual." The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active/dominant/masculine and passive/submissive/"feminized". Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male citizen possessed political liberty (libertas) and the right to rule both himself and those of his household (familia).
"Virtue" (virtus) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status, as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, excluded from the normal protections accorded a citizen even if they were technically free. Although Roman men in general seem to have preferred youths between the ages of 12 and 20 as sexual partners, freeborn male minors were strictly off-limits, and professional prostitutes and entertainers might be considerably older."
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FortWayne says
Well, yes but I am guess based on some logical assumptions, and as Robert points out some psychology papers that make sense to me.
In your earlier comments in this thread you seemed to indicate that you thought homosexuality was genetic. If this is your belief then no amount of viewing gays is going to turn a kid gay. Yes, it may make them think that being gay is OK, but it is not going to change their programmed sexual desires.
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no, no, my good man, dogs are led by INSTINCT, and PACK MENTALITY. Dog's right and wrong are dictated by the leader of the pack, and at no time is the leader's choice based on morality, and should the leader's choice match a given morality it is by accident.. In today's America, the liberal voter mentality is very close to the pack mentality.
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leo707 says
I cant figure out if you read what I wrote and just ignore it, or don't understand it, or what.
1) I said Roman's did not start out as boy raping sodomite maniacs. They didn't. THey were busy hunting, gathering, and conquering. They didn't start out with a parliment either.
2) I never mentioned that immoral behavior was why the empire failed, but it was. Or, at the very least it was an indicator.
3) The message of Christ was very much a key to the end of the Roman empire ... the message that said each person could access God, and have God in them, and that each person was free (even while bound), and that no man was worthy of worship ... yep, things that that, and others, made the empire erode. The is why the Roman-Catholic empire was created by the crown .... an effort to keep control. I think.
4) male/male sodomy is used in prison. Anyone care to elaborate? Would anyone from the pro-sodomite side vote in favor of having women and men prison's mixed? THis would remove alot of the reasons for sodmoy in prisons. So, pro-male/male coupling people on here, how do you feel about mixed prisons?
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And here, Bap, is your problem. You are committed to being on an 'anti-sodomite' side and playing a game. You can't allow yourself to learn from Dan, because that in your mind would allow him to score a point against your side. You exemplify the reason why the Republicans lost, and will probably lose again. You insist on treating people unfairly, and rationalize that by saying they're on the other side, when in fact they aren't different from you at all - except they base their opinions on evidence and reason rather than sticking to the wrong side.